A journey by AI

I was not sure about what LLMs could do for research and engineering work, had mixed opinion about the environmental impact versus usefulness, and somewhat worried about data safety and security in the age of internet. I had used ChatGPT a couple times just to check it out. And to be honest, it was not very good. My idea was that it would be a great writing tool, which it was. And it looked promising for students trying to cheat on their home works and professors were undecided or divided on what to do. Industries did not know how would their clients feel about the use of AI in their work. And research industry to this day is somewhat in the dark on what actually AI is, what it does at this time, what it can do, and where it is headed. I still hear the term “exposing your data to AI”, which bothers me. And I will tell you why when I know more.

As I am writing this today, my stance is very different.